This is an interactive website serving as a portal to the information contained within... wherever the community calls home.
The Mornington Peninsula has been chosen as the first of a series of pilot sites for VillageSoup, due for release in January, 2008. Other communities are invited to contact us for details on setting up their own Beta Site.
Typically small communities have difficulty funding the development and management of community networks, workshops and events for trader groups, funding local projects and organising festivals. VillageSoup is a unique combination of online newspaper and YouTube, and allows remote and smaller communities, local Government, neighbourhood centres, schools, sports clubs, arts and entertainment groups, etc, to upload articles online, photos, news items, etc., directly to the local community, with each community having it's own unique URL, for example, www.mornington.villagesoup.com.au.
The concept costs the non-profit organisations nothing.
There are two groups of sponsors:
Non-profit (orgMember™) sponsor organisations (Education, Government, Sports, Community, Arts and Entertainment) may post press releases, events and issues free-of-charge. Here local activities, event calendar, public notices, etc. are published online using pre-designed templates.
For-Profit (bizMember™) sponsor organisations may post news stories about their business, employment opportunities, promotions, new product or service developments using a variation of these templates (a fee is required).
By having the Centres all using the one resource, costs are kept to a minimum. At the same time, each region can have its own section.
The site hosts postings from journalist, individual, business and organization community members who together create a place to: • Learn the news that affects their community • Share the events and ideas that unite their community • Shop the goods and services that sustain their community
We acknowledge that... " all breakthrough ideas go through three stages. First, they are ignored, then vigorously opposed, and finally accepted as self-evident" (Attributed to Shopenhauer)